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25 years of liberalisation

In this issue

05-08-201642 STORIES

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Interview: Hannan Mollah, AIKS

‘Only a cooperative system can challenge corporatisation’

Interview with Hannan Mollah, general secretary, All India Kisan Sabha.

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The fall of white gold

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Interview: Tapan Sen, CITU

‘Workers are reacting even without unions’

Interview with Tapan Sen, general secretary, CITU.

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Lost variety

The distress in cotton farming in Telangana and Maharashtra is the most telling example of the outcome of the Centre’s slow withdrawal of support for

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Malfunctioning hub

The promise of the advocates of neoliberalism to position India as a factory for the world remains a pipe dream, thanks to the very policies that they

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Boom and bust

There is growing uncertainty about job security in the I.T. sector; and the retrenchment of “non-performers” by TCS in Hyderabad has come as a grim pi

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Agrarian crisis

Price is the rub

Trade liberalisation policies and integration of domestic and market prices of natural rubber have severely affected rubber cultivators of Kerala and

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Jute disaster

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The myth of growth

Economic growth in the last 25 years after liberalisation has been riding on a credit bubble. It has not made the manufacturing or exports sector robu

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Five-year Plans

Demise of planning

India’s planning process has had serious democracy deficits, but the country needs a similar mechanism to cope with the challenges posed by neoliberal

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Reaping distress

The inability to resolve pressing problems with respect to the production, distribution and availability of food is one of the important failures of t

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False promises

Shrinking government sector jobs, outsourcing of labour and reduced government investment are among factors that have affected public utility services

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Lessons on a Sanskrit literary style

The strength of this volume does not lie so much in showing changes in the practice of kavya in the ancient and medieval period as in representing cha

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Medicine market

The effect of health reforms has been both direct in terms of declining public investment in health-care infrastructure and medical education and indi

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A raw deal

In the neoliberal environment, outsourcing and informalisation of employment is accompanied by the government’s abdication of its responsibility to im

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Paradigm shift

If environmentalism was a cause before the 1990s, economic liberalisation erased the boundaries between private capital and the state, and public empa

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Cold War cloud

The NATO summit in Warsaw reinforces its collective defence strategy with Russia and China as its targets.

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Lost moorings

Twenty-five years of neoliberal economic policies have led to the undermining of India’s strategic autonomy and made India, once the flag-bearer of mo

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Reeling under debt

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Uneven development

Liberalisation without government intervention has resulted in asymmetric growth leading to a highly skewed population distribution, overcrowded citie

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Kannan’s Grand Mission

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Libel is no crime

The Supreme Court’s recent judgment pronouncing defamation as a criminal offence is out of sync with the law in the democratic world, where it is ess

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Justice for all?

The Supreme Court’s decisions over the past two decades display a shift in its approach to socio-economic issues. The impact of neoliberalism is evid

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All in the name of news

In the out-and-out corporate media environment that exists today, market-friendly value systems are a natural consequence and crony capitalist behavio

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Victims of ‘development’

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Striking at will

Under pressure on many fronts from Syria to Turkey to Iraq, the Daesh reverts to guerilla tactics, leading to a surge in terror attacks in many countr

Justice Misra’s prose

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Saving the tiger’s land

A stable tiger population in India in the past four decades sends out a clear signal that there is a need to establish “conservation zones” where all

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Partners in crime

The Iraq Inquiry Report establishes that Tony Blair deceived and misled the public and Parliament on Iraq, and hid uncomfortable information from them

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K.G. Subramanyan

For one to be so many

K.G. Subramanyan (1924-2016) was an extraordinary mix of honesty and compassion, a genius of his time and other times to come who created radical new

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Under the scanner

Zakir Naik, who is caught in a controversy after the terrorist killings in Dhaka, is essentially an orthodox cleric.

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Reimagining socialism in U.S.

The author examines the Left’s critical role in American history and underscores the need to rejuvenate it in the current context.

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King’s Constitution

On the similarities of the Constitutions of princely Tripura and India.

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Language of violence

The recent terror attacks in Bangladesh prove beyond doubt that a section of society is deeply radicalised. Yet, some citizens believe the country’s v

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A story of deceit

Threads in the John Chilcot Inquiry point to the U.S. but the debate over Iraq has been placed on mute in Washington.

Fresh & contemporary

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Jammu & Kashmir

Valley of fire

The anger and violence in Kashmir following the killing of the Hizbul Mujahideen leader Burhan Wani defines the heightened anti-India sentiment in the

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Human Development

Growth of inequality

Inequalities in the distributions of consumption expenditure and household wealth have shown a systematic secular increase. This is true of other huma

Letters to the editor

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Freedom of expression

Life-giving sentence

The Madras High Court’s verdict in the case relating to Perumal Murugan’s novel Madhorubagan, upholding the right to write, makes it possible for the

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Economic liberalism

Some gains, big losses

Economic liberalism has boosted services and exports but at the cost of agriculture and public sector jobs.

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Mills of history

At one time, the soaring chimneys of textile mills with their names boldly painted on their distinctive saw-toothed roofs dominated the skyscape behin

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